>>53772914>>53773856Even ignoring the canonicity of the anime, even ignoring that this then just presumes all Pokemon are retards even though it's shown on multiple other occasions they're intelligent and capable of basic deductive thinking - this is still a bad example because James and Jessie are not hard criminals, they're generally well meaning idiots.
Giovanni's Persian, Cyrus's Pokemon, Lysandre's Pokemon, Ghetsis's Pokemon, don't nearly have much of an excuse, or all the times when Pokemon are used to directly threaten or attack other people by criminals.